Judges rebuke Trump immigration policy as White House lashes out at the numbers

The journalist behind a sweeping analysis showing judges overwhelmingly rejecting a Trump administration immigration policy pushed back forcefully after a senior White House official attacked his findings. Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported that more than 300 federal judges — including dozens appointed by Trump himself — have ruled the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy illegal or unconstitutional, a margin that has now grown to more than 2,100 cases nationwide. Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigration crackdown, dismissed the rulings as judicial lawlessness, prompting Cheney to clarify that courts across the ideological spectrum are rejecting what they see as an unprecedented and unlawful interpretation of immigration law. Cheney noted that the losses have become so routine judges are issuing near-identical rulings, even as the policy persists through piecemeal litigation that makes a nationwide injunction difficult, leaving migrants to bear the brunt of a strategy critics say is designed to exhaust them into giving up.

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